Chapter 23: Preparation for Evan’s upgrade 2
Chapter 23: Preparation for Evan's upgrade 2
After seeing the status of the altar city, he knows that he needs 17 more level 0 cores for buying the red pill for Evan's upgrade and Ash needs 90 stones for constructing one new house for new coming people.
After all, Ash thinks in his mind that nobody likes to sleep on ground and if his city is not able to provide this basic facility, attraction of his city will become low; it will have a detrimental effect for long-term growth of the city.
So, city must have more houses for people.
After, Ash is also aiming for upgrade of his city in this upcoming day.
Therefore, most resources he gets will be used for city upgrade because upgrade of the city makes his altar more powerful and efficiency of mana-refining and production of mana-mist will also increase. And city's defense and attack power will get a boost too.
After that Ash pondered "how much resource he needed for buying the red pill and city upgrade" after some thinking, Ash decided to see city's status.
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City: Nexus city
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (woods * 1000, stone * 250, 50 * mana core (level 0))
Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: very small village
Mana (money): 33
Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level
Building: Guide mark * 1 (active), Market (5 free trade per day)
Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25)
Warehouse: wood * 39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1 * 1, Stone * 10
Population: 4
Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 4 per day)
Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310 * mined / 1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (900 / 1000)
Description: city's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (4000 / 10000)
Description: city's defense power level against enemies
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Ash did his calculation and resources he needed almost are for city upgrade and red pill, house: stone * 340, wood * 986, mana-core * 67.
After that Ash talked with Robin and he said to Robin "prepare for our travel in the outside of the city."
Robin "Okay my lord." After he said "My lord I don't have any weapon."
After Ash's some consideration, he told Robin "Go and ask Evan's axe for weapon."
And Robin nodded, after that he went towards the altar for asking Evan's weapon.
20 min later,
in the Nexus city,
Ash is practicing with the knife and training his body with hard exercise.
Few seconds later, Ash sees that Robin is returning with low level axe and low-level shield.
Ash asks him about Ram and he told him that Ram is teaching Evan best way to upgrade his level quickly and some mana-refining knowledge. It will take him minimum 5 hours for teaching his knowledge to Evan.
So, he is asking for your forgiveness for not coming here to let you go out of the city because Evan is also new enlighten phase and he says maybe Evan's level upgrade can give some surprise.
Ash nodded and he did not say anything to Robin. But Ash thinks Evan's upgrade is more important to him compared to see him off by Ram.
So, he does not take this as disrespect against him by Ram.
After that both Robin and Ash decided to go out of the city for monster hunting and resource gathering for city upgrade and constructing a house.
After 30 min,
Ash and Robin took their weapon and prepared for their exploration outside the city.
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15 min of traveling, Ash and Robin come in the forest where they started to look for suitable prey for hunting, after some consideration they decided to mostly hunt level 1 and level 0 monsters and in monsters' level, level 1 monster must be alone for hunting.
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After some finding in the forest, they find two level 1 monsters but they are together hunting their prey so Ash and Robin do not decide to take action against them.
5 min later they found a level 1 monster bear in a mountain alone sleeping and Ash tries to see the status of bear monster before hunting it because it will give some idea about this bear monster.
A window popped up in front of Ash.
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Stone Bear (Low-Grade Monster)
Rank: F-rank
Level: 1
Description: A big, stone bear with oversized fangs capable of chewing through wood, leather, and even weak armor but prefers to eat soil and rock. It prefers to live alone near mountain, using its big size and body strength to overwhelm prey.
Abilities: Berserk
Fast Reproduction – Mid reproduction capability compared to other monsters.
Gnawing Instinct – Can chew through doors, weak barriers, or ropes to escape traps.
Aggressive – Fights only when it feels it is powerful against another person.
Weakness: Weak to water and blunt attacks. Easily irritated by loud noises.
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After the status of the monster, Ash decides to take action against it.
So,
Ash took the axe from Robin, gave his knife to Robin after that he attacked stone bear and used the axe to suddenly hit both eyes of the stone bear. Since stone bear is sleeping it can't react quickly, so Ash successfully attacked the stone bear but result is not favorable towards Ash and Robin because Ash is not able to make stone bear blind but he took one eye of the stone bear and second eye is badly injured but stone bear can see clearly.
After, stone bear attacked Ash with full power but it missed because Ash is ready for stone bear's attack and had taken precaution against it. After ten more unsuccessful attacks by stone bear suddenly stone bear's second eye became extremely red like blood.
And its power and speed also surged many folds, two min later, Ash was struggling to avoid the attack of the stone bear then Robin started to use the shield to defend against the attack of stone bear.
And Robin was trying to confuse and anger the stone bear for helping Ash to avoid the attack of the stone bear. But stone bear is mostly taking a grudge against Ash and attacking him without thinking because Ash almost made it blind.
Ash also understands stone bear will mostly target him so he is trying his best to avoid the attack of stone bear with minimum effort.
Since stone bear used its berserk abilities, Ash thinks, after few hours stone bear will be dead. So, he and Robin are focusing more on protecting themselves against the attack of stone bear.
In 1-hour duration, stone bear attacked Ash with all its power but in critical moments Robin always used the shield for protecting Ash. Because of this, Robin got some injuries but Robin is level 2 human.
So stone bear's attack did not critically injure Robin but if this attack hit Ash then Ash will be having only half-broken body.
After stone bear sees its berserk ability's time is going to end, so stone bear decides to flee at full-power in the opposite direction of Ash, Robin.
And Ash, Robin decide to go after it but they are following stone bear while hiding themselves from the stone bear. After 30 min later,
Stone bear finds a mountain and it decides to dig that mountain and started digging soil from it. After that stone bear put itself in that pit for hiding itself.
If any other person sees that mountain, they will not think there is stone bear hiding like a part of mountain but Ash and Robin are looking at stone bear after it fled battle.
So, few minutes later, Ash gave axe to Robin and told him to finish the stone bear quickly,
After Robin's first attack to the stone bear, it died because it had sustained enough injury in the previous battle with Ash and Robin and it used its berserk few hours before so its health is low compared to its full health.
After that Robin took out the mana-core from stone bear, presented it to Ash and Ash took it. After that he calculated how many more mana cores he needs for red pill and city upgrade. After some calculation, Ash needs 57 * mana cores of level 0 because
one level 1 mana core = 10 * level 0 mana cores
After some consideration Ash started to see status window of the city.
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City: Nexus city
Ability: Territory defense double
Description: In event of city defense, all the attack power, defense power of people and building becomes double.
Altar level: 0
Upgrade requirement: (woods * 1000, stone * 250, 50 * mana core (level 0))
Production: mist mana level 0 * 10 per day
Area: 625 square meters
Status: very small village
Mana (money): 43
Tax (from market & city): 0 * mana-mist level
Building: Guide mark * 1 (active), Market (5 free trade per day)
Blueprint: low grade house (stones * 100, woods * 25)
Warehouse: wood * 39, Rabbit monster hide level 0 * 11, Rabbit monster hide level 1 * 1, Stone * 10
Population: 4
Specialty: Mana tree (produce level 0 mana * 4 per day)
Resource point: stone mountain level 1 (310 * mined / 1000 all stone mineable in new mine)
Attack power level: 0 (900 / 1000)
Description: city's power level to attack enemies
Defense power level: 0 (5000 / 10000)
Description: city's defense power level against enemies.
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